Editorial: Fight over Rockland employee prescription co-pays benefits no one

4:14 PM,
Feb. 2, 2013

Med World employee Brian Murphy helps Rockland County employee Myrnia Bass-Hargrove on Jan. 31 at Rockland County's pharmacy at the Yeager Health Center in Ramapo. County employees had been able to skip certain medication co-pays by using the county pharmacy.

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A Journal News editorial

Rockland property taxpayers, whose county taxes have soared almost 50 percent over the last two years, shouldn't be covering prescription co-pays for county workers. The perk must end. The question now is, how.

The Rockland county executive's office and the county's biggest union continue to quibble over how to end the expensive perk. The union says the free co-pay has to be negotiated away; Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef did an end-run and shut the pharmacy on Friday. CSEA, Rockland's largest union, promptly announced legal action to un-do the county executive's ...